As part of our Made in North Yorkshire series, we are proud to share the story of Dr William Pickles, a Yorkshire Dales GP and leading epidemiologist of his time.… Read More Made in North Yorkshire: Dr Pickles
Next in the Made in North Yorkshire series, we celebrate the brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton from Thwaites in Swaledale and look back at their achievements as pioneering early wildlife photographers. … Read More Made in North Yorkshire: Kearton Brothers
This Made in North Yorkshire feature tells the story of Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) known as the ‘Father of Flight’.… Read More Made In North Yorkshire: Sir George Cayley
Our first Great North Yorkshire Son or Daughter is VAD nurse Ursula Lascelles, who travelled from the rural North Yorkshire village of Slingsby, to the battlefields of France to support the war effort during World War One. Ursula Lascelles was born in Sheriff Hutton in July 1890, and died in 1992, aged 102. She was… Read More Made in North Yorkshire: Ursula Lascelles
